Beehive.



l. W. IORDAN.

BEEHIVE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1. 1916.

Patented J an. 9, 1917.

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BEEHIVE.

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Application filed March 7, 1916.

To all 'whom t may concern.'

lie it known that if, JAMES XV. JORDAN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at TvVilliamsbnrg, in the county Of Whitley and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beehives, of which the following is a specifica-tion.

My invention relates to bee-hives, and the primary objects thereof are to provide means for confining the bees in the brood-box while the honey is being' removed from the super; to provide means whereby all of the bees may be driven from the brood-box to the super or vice-versa, thereby permitting withdrawal of the larvae and preventing the ravages of rodents and the like, as well as an exchange of racks, the confinement of the queen bee in the brooder loox and the starting of new colonies.

To the accomplishment of the recited 0bjects, and others coordinate therewith, the preferred embodiment of my invention resides in that arrangement of parts shown in the accompanying drawings, hereinafter described, and embraced within the scope of the appended claim.

ln said drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of the bee-hive embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken along lines 2-2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a. similar view with the frame and screen, of the super, and the slide between the super and brood-box removed. Fig. 4i is a transverse section taken along lines 4%@ of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary plan view of 'the queen bee excluder. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a portion of the bee-escape board, and Fig. 7 is a fragmentary perspective view of one of the frames.

Referring more particularly to the drawings for a detailed description of myfinvention, the numeral l designates a. substantially rectangular shaped inclosure supported by legs Q, and having a door 3 and a baseboard 4r provided with an entrance, as 5. The interior of the main inclosure is divided transversely by a bee-escape board 6 into two compartments of approximately uniform dimensions, the brood-box 7 and the super 8. At the top of each compartment are arranged track-ways 9 adapted for removably supporting the brood-frames l0 and super-frames 1l, respectively, the frames being identical in structure, and comprising Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 99, 1991*?.

serial no. 82,688.

a headboard l2 with dove-tail grooves 13 on its under side extending to a point short of the rear wail of the inciosure and designed to receive the compiemental tenons le; of a plurality of racks h/ianifestly the frames may be introduced or withdrawn as a unit, or if desired, the racks may be inserted or removed independently. The fact that the racks, like the grooves 18, do not extend clear across the compartments allows sufiicient space to permit the bees to have ready access to the racks at all times. rihe front of each frame is inciosed by a screen 16 which is detachably supported by a vertical retaining strip 17 on one side and fastening devices 18 upon the other side.

Lying upon the bee-escape board 6 is a queen bee eXcluder 19 having its forward marginal edge 20 reinforced and projecting beyond the edOe of the bee-escape board to afford al support for the screen 16 of the super, as will loe seen upon inspection of Fig. 2. An imperforate slide, as 2l, having the same general contour as the excluder, is adapted to be superposcd with respect to the excluder, when certain contingencies arise, and this too will support the edge of the screen when in the position exhibited in Fig. 3.

Ordinarily, a bee-hive is robbed by smoking the bees down from the super to the brood-box, and the honey drips upon the bees, which thereupon become angered and return to defend their home. in my improved hive the bees can be temporarily imprisoned by slipping a block of wood, as 22, in the entrance 5 of the hive before the bees begin to out in the morning. Then upon opening the door 3, and allowing smoke to pass through the screen l5 into the super, the bees will descend into the brood-box, when the slide 2l is placed between the two compartments and serves to confine the bees in the broodbox. The honey can now be removed with impunity either by withdrawing one rack at a time or by taking out the entire frame. Owing to the facility with which the bees may be constrained from one compartment to the other, the larvae may be removed at any time and thereby prevent the ravages of rodents, pests and the like. Another advantage resides in the fact that the racks are interchangeable which provides for strengthening the weaker colonies wheneverl it is found desirable. Still fur- Las ther advantages are that by means of the slide and the excluder, the queen bee Ymay be kept in the broeder-box to raise her -youngg and that the Worker bees may be driven from the broeder-box into the super, leaving the queen or queens, as the case may be, in the broeder-box. It' more than one queen -is found she may be placed in a new hive with a few Workers and thus :start a new colony. In the event only one queen lis discovered, the rack `with the cell and a quantity of bees may be taken to a new hive-Which also serves to increase ones stock of bees.

It should be understood that in broader Aaspects my invention comprehends the employment not only of Athe various means described, but of similarineans J'or performing the recited functions. It isrdesired to reserve the right to effect such changes and modifications as may be deemed to come fairly Within the scope of the appended claim. Y

That I claim is:-

In a bee-hive, the combination ofV an in closure having' two compartments, one of said compartments containing a brood-frame While the other compartment contains a super-frame, a bee-escape board betweenthe frames, a screen for each compartment, a slide superposed with respect to the escapeboard, said slide Vbeing adapted to support Y the super-screen While the base-board sup;-

ports the lower screen, andvmean'sat 'oppofv site sides of the inclosure for detachabl-y're# taining the screens.

In testimony whereof l a'lix my Vsignature in the presence of two Witnesses.

Vitnesses:

E. L. STEPHENS, T. WT.v STEELY.

'Copiesof this patent may be'obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of E'atents Washington, D. C, Y

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